Leadership QualitiesOF GREAT LEADERS

Vision1GREAT LEADERS have a clear, exciting idea of where they are going and what they are trying to accomplish.

This quality separates leaders from managers.

Vision allows leaders to tap into the emotion of their employees.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

- Jack Welch

StrategicPlanning5

GREAT LEADERS are outstanding at strategic planning. They have the ability to look ahead, to anticipate with some accuracy where the indus-try and the markets are going.

Leaders have the ability to anticipate trends, well in advance of their

competitors.

Because of increasing competitiveness, only the leaders and organiza-

tions that can accurately anticipate future markets can possibly survive.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but theopposite: its starting point. - Henry Mintzberg

Integrity3 The main value that almost all executives agree upon for their company is integrity.

The core of integrity is truthfulness.

Integrity requires that you always tell the truth, to all people, in

every situation.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. - Zig Ziglar

Cooperation7 LEADERSHIP is the ability to get people to work for you because they want to.

Gain the cooperation of others by making a commitment to get

along well with each key person every single day.

Because there is no certainty in life or business, every commitment

you make and every action you take entails a risk of some kind.

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after. - Napoleon Hill

Humility4GREAT LEADERS are those who are strong and decisive but also humble.

Humility is having the self-confidence and self-awareness to

recognize the value of others without feeling threatened.

It means that you are willing to admit you could be wrong, that you

recognize you may not have all the answers.

The more you can contain your ego, the more realistic you are about your problems. You learn how to listen, and admit that you don’t know all the answers. - Larry Bossidy

Courage2Among the 7 LEADERSHIP qualities, courage is the most identifiable outward trait.

Courage means that you are willing to take risks in the achieve-

ment of your goals with no assurance of success.

Because there is no certainty in life or business, every commit-

ment you make and every action you take entails a risk of some

kind.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend. - Winston Churchill

Focus6The ability of a leader to make sure that every-one is focused and concentrated on the most valuable use of their time is essential to excel-lent performance.

Leaders focus on results, on what must be achieved by them-

selves, by others, and by the company.

Great leaders focus on strengths, in themselves and in others.

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

- Jack Canfield

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